Due to the coronavirus, the Chabad Synagogue of Mineola has been closed for more than 3 weeks and the required weekly Torah reading portions have not been read, leaving the Torah opening in the wrong sections.
Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Director of Chabad of Mineola, was feeling sad over this, so he went to his empty Shul and rolled the Torah to set it to the right portion to be read this Wednesday (April 15) the 7th day of Passover – the first of the 2 concluding days of the holiday. Its verses start at Exodus 13:17, which includes the Song the Jewish people sang after Crossing the Red Sea, aka the Shirat HaYam.
This rabbi is filled with the excitement and hope, that if the Congregation were to be back in Shul in time this week, they wouldn’t need to waste any time rolling the Torah to the correct reading spot for the day.
On the short video the rabbi also explains the deeper meanings of why these particular verses of Song have a wall-like pattern with spaces between words and its important lesson for these difficult pandemic times, when we all need to be extremely thankful and grateful for all our blessings we have.
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His acumen in deciphering when to make a public statement or action for the glory of Hashem continues to amaze me as well as a great number of Jewish people, observant or not…Good Yom Tov!
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Keep up the great work…Keep “rolling along”…The Torah scrolls that is!
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